From Barf Bags to Custom Dildos: Test Your Knowledge of the Priciest Band Merch Ever Made

With the release of his book The Sick Bag Song this week, Nick Cave enters the rarified air of artists who’ve charged exorbitant prices for inexplicable merch. True to its name, the book includes a real airline bile sack mussed over with Cave’s errant jots and doodles, along with two white vinyl records, for the cool price of £750 ($1,153). (However, as the website crows, the bag is "fully functional.")

Cave still has miles to go before he can challenge the cash-grab theatrics of his rock predecessors, though. Test your knowledge of other near-farcical band wares below.

(Note: We tried to find female artists peddling pricey oddball wares and, aside from a dubious Lady Gaga bluetooth headset that raises as many issues as it solves, came up empty. A timely reminder that it’s really the men getting that coin.)

1. Bored of their ritualistic onstage slaughter of Sarah Palin, which punny commodity did GWAR invent and promptly shill on their site?

a) a solitaire ring with a rhodium-plated silver band and "GWAR-tz" semiprecious stone (errant iron shrapnel from the blood cannon) ($149.99)
b) a terrifyingly murky bottle of "GWAR-BQ" sauce (currently sold out)
c) a leatherbound edition of GWAR and Peace with two pages, one for each boob ($65)